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Petr Petrovich Sokolov

The Borki Train Disaster

Auction Closed

November 30, 02:40 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Petr Petrovich Sokolov

1821 - 1899

The Borki Train Disaster


signed in Cyrillic and dated 1888 l.r.

gouache, gold paint and pencil on paper laid on canvas

Canvas: 102.5 by 144.5cm, 40¼ by 57in.

Framed: 160 by 202cm, 63 by 79½in.


'Lettres Parisiennes', Journal de Monaco, no. 1636, 10 December 1889, mentioned in the text;

F. Bulgakov, Nashi khudozhniki, St Petersburg 1890 (reprinted 2002), p. 176 (as Krushenie tsarskago poezda 17-go oktyabrya 1888 g.).

O. Spitsyna, Petr Petrovich Sokolov, Moscow 1953, p. 104.

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1889;

Probably St Petersburg, 1900;

St Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, Five Centuries of Russian Art, 12 January – 11 June 1995.